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Quotes by Scientist
"It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring."
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"For it is we who must pray for our daily bread, and if He grants it to us, it is only through our labour, our skill and preparation."
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"Natural selection has served as a kind of intellectual sieve, producing brains and intelligences increasingly competent to deal with the laws of nature."
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"No one does anything right in life, until they realize that they are making a mistake."
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"Gandhi, the greatest political genius of our time, has pointed the way. He was shown of what sacrifices people are capable once they have found the right way. His work for the liberation of India is a living testimony to the fact that a will governed by firm conviction is stronger than a seemingly invincible material power."
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"Males transmit signals in courtship through behavioral displays."
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"Education has failed in a very serious way to convey the most important lesson science can teach: skepticism."
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"The theory of evolution by cumulative natural selection is the only theory we know of that is in principle capable of explaining the existence of organized complexity."
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"Exchange of breeding individuals between two populations tends to homogenize their gene pools."
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"I think copyright is moral, proper. I think a creator has the right to control the disposition of his or her works - I actually believe that the financial issue is less important than the integrity of the work, the attribution, that kind of stuff."
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"We see an entire planet which has many limitations."
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"If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about."
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"It is always with excitement that I wake up in the morning wondering what my intuition will toss up to me, like gifts from the sea. I work with it and rely on it. It's my partner."
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"The metaphor of Exodus is one that has dogged the Jews from the outset. Their very success attracts resentment."
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"The problem is that replacement of Quantum Mechanics by Quantum Field Theory is still very demanding."
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"The green revolution has an entirely different meaning to most people in the affluent nations of the privileged world than to those in the developing nations of the forgotten world."
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"My own perception of that is somewhat colored by where people ask my advice, which is still, of course, about changes to Python internals or at least standard libraries."
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"There's a lot of research behind the scenes that you don't get to see, but I have an instinct that my dad nurtured from when I was born. I was very lucky then."
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"This oxidation of hydrogen in stages seems to be one of the basic principles of biological oxidation."
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"My one purpose in life is to serve as a warning to others."
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"The adequate study of culture, our own and those on the opposite side of the globe, can press on to fulfillment only as we learn today from the humanities as well as from the scientists."
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"In the late 1950s a major topic under discussion was whether Canada should acquire nuclear weapons."
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"Waters are distilled out of Herbs, Flowers, Fruits, and Roots."
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"When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves."
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"Dressing up is inevitably a substitute for good ideas. It is no coincidence that technically inept business types are known as 'suits'."
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"We are the products of editing, rather than of authorship."
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"At rest, however, in the middle of everything is the sun."
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"In so many and such important ways, then, do the planets bear witness to the earth's mobility."
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"I was interested in implements of mass destruction - from an academic point of view."
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"Imagine if every Thursday your shoes exploded if you tied them the usual way. This happens to us all the time with computers, and nobody thinks of complaining."
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